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British Sign Language Receptive Skills Test (From: Tobias Haug: “Review of Sign Language Assessment Instruments”, an earlier version of that paper 2005. revised in cooperation with Ros Herman, 2009) This assessment measures comprehension of BSL grammar in children aged 3-13 years

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HTML, with BSL video examples

http://www.signlang-assessment.info/index.php/british-sign-language-receptive-skills-test.html

The British Sign Language (BSL) norms for age of acquisition, familiarity, and iconicity: David P. Vinson, Kearsy Cormier, Tanya Denmark, Adam Schembri, and Gabriella Vigliocco, University College London (Behavior Research Methods 2008, 40 (4), 1079-1087)

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PDF – 9 pages

http://brm.psychonomic-journals.org/content/40/4/1079.full.pdf+html

Aphasia in a user of British Sign Language: Dissociation between sign and gesture: Jane Marshall; Jo Atkinson; Elaine Smulovitch; Alice Thacker; Bencie Woll (City University, London, UK; St George’s Hospital Medical School, London, UK) (Cognitive Neuropsychology, Volume 21, Issue 5 July 2004 , pages 537 – 554)

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Abstract. Full Text to Purchase

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/795382157-490182/content~db=all~content=a713819159

Assessing BSL Development: Production Test: Herman, R., Grove, N., Holmes, S., Morgan, G., Sutherland, H. & Woll, B. (City University Publication 2004) – Second in a series of language assessments in BSL, produced by the Sign Language & Deaf Studies research team at City University, London. The BSL Production Test is intended to complement the BSL Receptive Skills Test by looking at children’s signed output.

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http://www.signlang-assessment.info/index.php/assessing-bsl-development-production-test-narrative-skills.html

Categorical Perception of Face Actions: Their Role in Sign Language and in Communicative Facial Displays: Ruth Campbell, Department of Human Communication Science, University College London; Bencie Woll, Department of Clinical Communication Sciences, City University, London; Philip J. Benson, University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford; Simon B. Wallace, MRC Child Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London (THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, 1999, 52A (1), 67-95)

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Full text PDF – 29 pages

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~psy317/personal/files/papers/p67_s.pdf

Children are just lingual: the development of phonology in British Sign Language (BSL): Gary Morgan, City University, London (Lingua, 2006)

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PDF – 43 pages

http://www.staff.city.ac.uk/g.morgan/BSL%20phonology%20lingua.pdf

Deaf children invited to take part in a unique sign vocabulary project: City University London researchers are developing The British Sign Language Vocabulary Test (2010)

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http://www.city.ac.uk/news/archive/2010/06_June/150610.html

The development of complex verb constructions in British Sign Language: Gary Morgan, Rosalind Herman and Bencie Woll, City University, London (Journal of Child Language, 29, 655 -675, 2002)

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PDF – 21 pages

http://www.staff.city.ac.uk/g.morgan/AB%20verbs.pdf

Early vocabulary development in deaf native signers: a British Sign Language adaptation of the communicative development inventories: Tyron Woolfe, Rosalind Herman, Penny Roy, Bencie Woll (Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry Volume 51, Issue 3, pages 322–331, March 2010. Article first published online: 19 Oct 2009)

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Abstract. Full text by subscription.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7610.2009.02151.x/abstract

Evidence from the wider use of the BSL Receptive Skills Test: Ros Herman, Penny Roy, City University, London, UK (Deafness & Education International, Volume 8 Issue 1, Pages 33 – 4, 2006)

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PDF – 29 pages

http://www.city.ac.uk/lcs/dps/biog/Deafness%20and%20education%20paper%20april%2006.pdf